Guilty Gear

Guilty Gear is a series of sprite-based fighting games designed by artist Daisuke Ishiwatari and Arc System Works. more...

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It is popular with fans for its detailed anime-style graphics, original characters, hard rock/heavy metal soundtrack, unique gameplay, and its numerous references to Rock and Heavy metal music.

The first game in the series, Guilty Gear, was released on the PlayStation home system in 1998. While it did gain some praise from the mainstream video game press such as Gamespot, it didn't make much of an impact on the video game market, but became something of a cult hit with many gamers. However, the release of its sequel Guilty Gear X on the Sega Dreamcast console in 2000 gained much more attention with its gameplay and more detailed graphics. In 2001 Sammy released Guilty Gear Petit and its sequel Guilty Gear Petit 2 later in the same year for Wonderswan, a handheld gaming device in Japan.

In 2002, Guilty Gear XX (known as Guilty Gear X2 in North America) was released, furthering the individual stories while improving on gameplay and visuals. This was soon followed by Guilty Gear XX #Reload (pronounced "Sharp Reload"), which addressed a number of gameplay imbalances in XX and changed both matchplay tier arrangement and the "distance" between the tiers, added a new tournament-legal character, and brought the series online with Xbox Live. In 2004, Guilty Gear Isuka ("Isuka" meaning crossbill in Japanese, and representing the way two swords clash) was released, featuring up to four-player simultaneous gameplay, a side-scrolling mode called "Boost Mode", a customizable version of one of the characters, a new playable character, and various other goodies.

A new installment to the series, Guilty Gear XX Slash, has been released in arcade and on the Japanese PlayStation 2, and features one new character (Holy Order Sol, an alternate version of Sol Badguy) and a "balanced" version of A.B.A from Guilty Gear Isuka, as well as balance changes for the rest of the cast.

As of December 20th, 2006 a new version, "Guilty Gear XX: Accent-Core" has been released in arcades in Japan. Although very little details on the final version of the game are as of yet known, everything official can be found at the official Japanese website.

Three handheld versions are available on the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP. Their titles are Guilty Gear XX #Reload (Japanese-only), Guilty Gear Judgment (PSP) and Guilty Gear Dust Strikers (DS). Dust Strikers is more along the lines of Isuka, with four player gameplay being touted as its major draw point. It is also a "multi-platform" fighter, in the vein of games such as Super Smash Brothers Melee. Judgment features two different Guilty Gear titles: The side-scrolling Guilty Gear Judgment that takes place through about 20 levels, similar to Isuka's Boost Mode. While the Japanese version of the game also features Guilty Gear XX Slash, the U.S. version contains Guilty Gear XX #Reload. Guilty Gear XX Slash has no US release yet, the reason why Guilty Gear Judgement (US Release) has only Guilty Gear XX #Reload.

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